Marco Pantani's maverick life ended in a mysterious death. Nearly 20 years on, the questions and investigations continue amid claims that powerful criminals wanted Italy's star cyclist dead.

But Pantani was riding at a time when it was difficult to operate as a lone wolf in professional cycling. After the sport's apparently endemic use of performance enhancing drugs was revealed in ...

Under an appropriately leaden grey sky, the body of the fallen cycling hero Marco Pantani was finally laid to rest yesterday in the cemetery of his home town of Cesenatico, Italy.

For many of us February 14th marks Valentine’s Day – the day to remember and be with someone special. For cycling fans; this year also marks the 15th anniversary of Marco Pantani’s death – a ...

Prior to Pogačar’s incredible result, the feat had only been achieved seven times before by male riders. It had also not been done for 26 years in men's cycling, with Marco Pantani being the ...

But I finished watching Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist and felt as if I hadn’t seen a traditional sports documentary at all, because the love of the sport didn’t come across to me ...

Pantani collected his things from the back seat, then paid the agreed fee in cash. 660 euros. The taxi pulled away. In the mirror, the man with the beard looked even smaller, standing on the ...

Marco Pantani, cyclist: born Cesena, Italy 13 January 1970; ... Pantani wrote off a series of cars, began an unsavoury night-life and split up from his long-standing Danish girlfriend.

Pantani received his last pink jersey of 1999 in Madonna di Campiglio So, from Madonna di Campiglio I had to ride through the Tonale and descend to the base of the Aprica. On the top of the Tonale was ...